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August 4, 2006

Google Maps : Saved Locations

Google Maps shows a new link at the top of the screen called "Saved Location". This feature is available in all Google Maps versions.

You can save your searches, add a label to the locations, choose your location by default. Google Suggest is built-in: in this example (screenshot), if you type "G", Google Maps allows you to select directly Googleplex or Google France.

These features have already been available on Google Maps' competitors for a while...

19 comments:

By the way, you know a tag in the query to say to Google Maps : "go to Label #1" ?For example, if I saved a place "Buddy1" and I want to go there, I would have to go into saved locations and then select Buddy1. A tag saying it is one of my saved locations would be so nice. Better would be that fields of locations have some kind of Google Suggest extension to show us our saved locations sorted by what we are typing. Any idea ?

Why can't you simply right click and save a location? It's like they go out of their way to make this product hard to use. Mine autosaves but never gets the location exactly right. This isn't very user friendly but better than nothing I guess.

Does Google limit the number of saved locations (say to about 100) for an individual account? I previously ran into that problem and have encountered it again now that my list of saved locations stretches out. I typically eliminate saved locations that I no longer use, but they still add up.